pap

See also: Pap and PAP

Translingual

Symbol

pap

1. (international standards) ISO 639-2 & ISO 639-3 language code for Papiamento.

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pæp/

• Audio (AU)

  (file)

• Rhymes: -æp

Etymology 1

From Middle English pap. Related to Middle Low German pappe, Dutch pap, German Pappe (“pap, porridge; wheatpaste; cardboard”), Old French papa/pape, Latin pappa, Bulgarian папам (papam, “to eat”) and Serbo-Croatian папати/papati (“to eat”), among others. The relationships between these words are difficult to reconstruct. The Germanic word is either a borrowing from Latin or, perhaps more probably, an independent formation in baby-talk.

Noun

pap (plural paps)

1. (uncountable) Food in the form of a soft paste, often a porridge, especially as given to very young children.

   Pap can be made from bread boiled in milk or water.

2. (uncountable, colloquial) Nonsense; pablum.
3. (South Africa) Porridge.

   Pap and wors are traditionally eaten at a braai.

4. (Nigeria, West Africa) A fermented cereal pudding made from corn, sorghum, or millet
5. (informal, derogatory) Support from official patronage.

   Treasury pap

6. The pulp of fruit.
   • 1633, James Hart, The Diet of the Diseased:

     I hold it not amisse to take Pills in the pap of a rosted apple.

   • 1761, [Laurence Sterne], chapter XVI, in The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, volume III, London: […] R[obert] and J[ames] Dodsley […], →OCLC, page 72:

     A child's head is naturally as soft as the pap of an apple.

Derived terms

• pap boat
• stywe pap

 

Translations

soft food

• Bulgarian: каша (bg) f (kaša)
• Classical Nahuatl: tlaxcalātōlli
• Dutch: pap (nl) m or f
• Finnish: mössö (fi)
• French: purée (fr) f
• Galician: papa (gl) f
• Georgian: ფაფა (papa)
• German: Brei (de) m
• Greek: νιανιά (el) n pl (nianiá)
• Italian: pappa (it) f
• Latin: pāpārium n
• Polish: papka (pl) f
• Russian: пюре́ (ru) n (pjuré)
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: papa f

• Spanish: papilla (es) f
• Swedish: smörja (sv) c

colloquial: nonsense

• Bulgarian: глупости (bg) f pl (gluposti)
• Finnish: potaska (fi), lööperi (fi), mössö (fi)
• Swedish: smörja (sv) c

porridge — see porridge

support from official patronage

• Finnish: tukiaiset pl

pulp of fruit

• Bulgarian: пулп (bg) m (pulp)
• Finnish: hedelmäliha (fi)

Verb

pap (third-person singular simple present paps, present participle papping, simple past and past participle papped)

1. (transitive, obsolete) To feed with pap.
   • c. 1619–1623, John Fletcher, Philip Massinger, “The Custome of the Countrey”, in Comedies and Tragedies […], London: […] Humphrey Robinson, […], and for Humphrey Moseley […], published 1647, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):

     But I'll so pap him up - nothing too dear for him : What a sweet scent he has !

Translations

to feed with pap

• Finnish: syöttää mössöä

Etymology 2

From Middle English pappe, of uncertain origin. Perhaps from Latin papilla; or perhaps compare Old Swedish papp (“breast, nipple”), from Proto-Germanic *pap- (“nipple”), of imitative origin, or from Proto-Indo-European *pap- (“pock mark, nipple”); Swedish dialectal papp, pappe, Swedish patt, Danish patte, North Frisian pap, pape, papke (“breast, pap”).

Noun

pap (plural paps)

1. (archaic) A female breast or nipple. [from 13th c.]
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto XII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

     But th'other rather higher did arise, / And her two lilly paps aloft displayd, / And all, that might his melting hart entise / To her delights, she vnto him bewrayd […]

   • 1603, Michel de Montaigne, translated by John Florio, The Essayes […], London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:

     they doe not onely weare jewels at their noses, in their lip and cheekes, and in their toes, but also big wedges of gold through their paps [translating tetins] and buttocks […].

   • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Luke 11:27:

     And it came to pass, as he spake these things, a certain woman of the company lifted up her voice, and said unto him, Blessed is the womb that bare thee, and the paps which thou hast sucked.

2. (now rare, archaic) A man's breast. [from 15th c.]
   • 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 13, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:

     Adrianus the Emperour made his Physition to marke and take the just compasse of the mortall place about his pap, that so his aime might not faile him, to whom he had given charge to kill him.

3. A rounded, nipple-like hill or peak.
   • 1849–1861, Thomas Babington Macaulay, The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, volumes (please specify |volume=I to V), London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, →OCLC:

     the paps of Jura

Translations

female breast

• Bulgarian: зърно (bg) n (zǎrno), цицка f (cicka)
• Finnish: tissi (fi), tisu (fi)
• Irish: dide f
• Scottish Gaelic: cìoch f

Etymology 3

Ellipsis of Pap smear.

Noun

pap (plural paps)

1. Alternative letter-case form of Pap (“Pap smear”).

Etymology 4

From Afrikaans pap (“porridge”). Cognate with etymology 1.

Adjective

pap (comparative more pap, superlative most pap)

1. (South Africa, slang) Weak, feeble; lacking substance.
   • 1975, Sheila Roberts, Outside Life's Feast: Short Stories, Johannesburg: Ad. Donker, →ISBN, page 27:

     His chest hangs like soft tits in his vest. He is pap. I could easily hit him. I could kill him if I wanted to.

2. (South Africa, slang) Spineless, wet, without character.

   He is so pap and boring.

3. (South Africa, slang) Flat.

   I got a puncture and the wheel went pap.

Translations

without character

• Finnish: nössö (fi)

Etymology 5

Clipping of paparazzo.

Noun

pap (plural paps)

1. (informal) Clipping of paparazzo.
   • 2015, “Justin Bieber's top 10's worst moments”, in OK! Magazine:

     As he made his way from the London hotel to his car, the singer threatened to beat up a pap who got in his way.

   • 2015, Mira Bailee, Broken Strings:

     We turn back onto the main road and I'm relieved to not see any paps. They've got to be somewhere though. They don't just leave.

   • 2023 January 17, Tina Brown, “Spare by Prince Harry review – magical thinking in Montecito”, in The Guardian‎^[1]:

     The only aspect of his mother’s death that he finds unforgettable is the identity of those who caused it: the press and the paps, variously referred to as ghouls, pustules, dogs, weasels, idiots and sadists, who after “torturing” his mother “would come for me”.

Verb

pap (third-person singular simple present paps, present participle papping, simple past and past participle papped)

1. (informal, usually passive voice) To take a surreptitious photograph of (someone, especially a celebrity) without their consent.

   Look, that pop star’s been papped in her bikini again!

   • 2023 June 16, Daisy Jones, “Cool, sexy and stinking of smoke: why are TV dramas giving cigarettes a comeback?”, in The Guardian‎^[2], →ISSN:

     The star of Netflix’s Wednesday, 20-year-old Jenna Ortega (another Gen Z actor) was recently papped holding an iPhone and chuffing on a straight cigarette (the fact that this was a pap photo is all the more throwback).

Etymology 6

Compare pa, papa, pop.

Noun

pap (plural paps)

1. (informal) Pa; father.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:father

   • 1884, Mark Twain, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn:

     Pap he hadn't been seen for more than a year, and that was comfortable for me; I didn't want to see him no more. He used to always whale me when he was sober and could get his hands on me; though I used to take to the woods most of the time when he was around. Well, about this time he was found in the river drowned, about twelve mile above town, so people said. They judged it was him, anyway; said this drowned man was just his size, and was ragged, and had uncommon long hair—which was all like pap—but they couldn't make nothing out of the face, because it had been in the water so long it warn't much like a face at all.

Etymology 7

Verb

pap (third-person singular simple present paps, present participle papping, simple past and past participle papped)

1. (Internet slang, text messaging) Alternative letter-case form of PAP (“post a picture”).

Descendants

• → Indonesian: pap

Anagrams

• APP, App, PPA, app, app.

Afrikaans

Etymology

From Dutch pap, from Middle Dutch pappe.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pap/

• Audio

  (file)

Noun

pap (uncountable)

1. porridge

Descendants

• → Sotho: papa
• → Zulu: í-pápa

References

• 2007. The UCLA Phonetics Lab Archive. Los Angeles, CA: UCLA Department of Linguistics.

Aromanian

Noun

pap m (plural pachi or pãpãnj/pãpenj)

1. grandfather
2. ancestor, forefather
3. old man

Synonyms

• (grandfather): ghiush, tot
• (old man): mosh, aush, bitãrnu

See also

• babã
• omã

Catalan

Etymology

Deverbal from papar.

Noun

pap m (plural paps)

1. crop, craw

   Synonym: gavatx

2. double chin

   Synonym: papada

3. belly

   Synonym: panxa

Derived terms

• papada

Further reading

• “pap” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

Danish

Etymology

From German Pappe, from Middle High German pappe (“porridge, mush”), a common nursery word for "porridge", compare Upper German Papp, English pap, Latin pappa, pāpa (“an infant's cry for food”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈpʰɑb̥]

Noun

pap n (singular definite pappet, plural indefinite papper)

1. cardboard

Declension

Declension of pap

neuter gender	Singular		Plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	pap	pappet	papper	papperne
genitive	paps	pappets	pappers	pappernes

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pɑp/

• Audio

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• Hyphenation: pap
• Rhymes: -ɑp

Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch pappe.

Noun

pap m (plural pappen, diminutive papje n)

1. mush
2. porridge

Derived terms

• bloempap
• gortepap
• griesmeelpap
• rijstepap

Descendants

• Afrikaans: pap
  • → Sotho: papa
  • → Zulu: í-pápa
• Berbice Creole Dutch: pap
• Jersey Dutch: pap
• → Aukan: papa
• → Papiamentu: papa
• → Saramaccan: pápa

Etymology 2

Shorter form of papa, usually considered more grown-up, whereas papa is considered rather child-like.

Noun

pap m (uncountable, diminutive paps n)

1. (colloquial) Pa, dad

Etymology 3

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

pap

1. inflection of pappen:
   1. first-person singular present indicative
   2. imperative

Hungarian

Etymology

Borrowed from a Slavic (probably from a South Slavic) language. Compare Bulgarian поп (pop), Serbo-Croatian pop, Russian поп (pop).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈpɒp]
• Rhymes: -ɒp

Noun

pap (plural papok)

1. priest (in Catholic terminology)

Declension

Inflection (stem in -o-, back harmony)
	singular	plural
nominative	pap	papok
accusative	papot	papokat
dative	papnak	papoknak
instrumental	pappal	papokkal
causal-final	papért	papokért
translative	pappá	papokká
terminative	papig	papokig
essive-formal	papként	papokként
essive-modal	—	—
inessive	papban	papokban
superessive	papon	papokon
adessive	papnál	papoknál
illative	papba	papokba
sublative	papra	papokra
allative	paphoz	papokhoz
elative	papból	papokból
delative	papról	papokról
ablative	paptól	papoktól
non-attributive possessive - singular	papé	papoké
non-attributive possessive - plural	papéi	papokéi

Possessive forms of pap
possessor	single possession	multiple possessions
1st person sing.	papom	papjaim
2nd person sing.	papod	papjaid
3rd person sing.	papja	papjai
1st person plural	papunk	papjaink
2nd person plural	papotok	papjaitok
3rd person plural	papjuk	papjaik

Derived terms

• papi
• papol
• papos
• papság

 

Compound words

• főpap
• paplak
• papnő

 

Expressions

• jó pap holtig tanul
• kinek a pap, kinek a papné

 

See also

• atya
• lelkész (Calvinist or Lutheran term)
• lelkipásztor (Calvinist term)
• pásztor (Calvinist term)
• plébános (Catholic term)
• prédikátor (Calvinist term)
• tisztelendő (Catholic or Lutheran term)
• tiszteletes (Calvinist term)

Further reading

• pap in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (‘The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN

Indonesian

Alternative forms

• PAP

Etymology

Borrowed from English pap (sense 7, but likely also from sense 5).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pap/

Noun

pap (first-person possessive papku, second-person possessive papmu, third-person possessive papnya)

1. (slang) A picture obtained as a result of pap.
   • (from sense 4 of the verb) (watch the trailer on Instagram, which contains the scene)
     2020, Agung Sentausa, director, Pindah Planet!!!, spoken by Tia, Yayasan Kampung Halaman:

     Siapa yang minta pap? Jangan, jangan pernah kasih pap ke siapapun.

     Who asked for a pap (nude)? Don't, don't ever give a pap to anyone.

Verb

pap

1. (Internet slang, usually imperative) to take/send/post a picture (especially a photograph), usually as proof of something.
2. (Internet slang, usually imperative) to take/send/post a picture of oneself with their background location visible and/or to take/send/post a picture of a location (in which one is currently in), especially (as proof) to show where one currently is.
3. (slang) to take a picture of something.
4. (slang) to take/send a picture of oneself, especially of their sexual body parts; to send a nude
5. (slang, usually active voice) to take a picture of someone, usually surreptitiously and without their consent.

Usage notes

• Unlike in English (sense 7 and/or sense 5), none of the meanings above are exclusive to text messaging.

Middle English

Alternative forms

• papp, pape, pappe

Etymology

Borrowed from Old French papa and Medieval Latin papo.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpap(ə)/

Noun

pap (uncountable)

1. A gruel or porridge; baby food

Descendants

• English: pap
• ⇒ Yola: pappee

References

• “pap, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Pohnpeian

Verb

pap

1. to swim

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pap/

• Audio

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ap
• Syllabification: pap

Noun

pap f

1. genitive plural of papa

Romanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [pap]

Verb

pap

1. first-person singular present indicative/subjunctive of păpa

Sumerian

Romanization

pap

1. Romanization of 𒉽 (pap)

Zazaki

Noun

pap (c)

1. popcorn